Workers in the Food and Beverage sector, yesterday in Lagos stormed business premises of Nigerian Breweries Limited, NBL, Flour Mills PlC, and 7-UP Bottling Company, PLC, protesting perceived protracted delay in effecting a new welfare package by their employers.

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were last night bracing themselves for fallouts from the most competitive elective convention in the party’s 18-year history with about 92 persons jostling for 21 positions.

Maureen Mennor Nwaezeigwe is the founder of Singlemomhood Support Initiative. In this interview, she disclosed how she was touched by the emotional trauma of failed marriages and the heavy burden of parenting which single mothers are forced to live. This spurred her to set up a forum that would provide them with emotional, financial and psychological support.

Though the word democratic stands at the middle of its name, many critics and adherents of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP readily confess that the party has for most of the past 18 years been anything but democratic in its actions.

So far the Buhari administration has earned laurels for being the masters of policies depending on citizen responsibility. Two of them stand out :   The Nigerian Voluntary Asset and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) , a time-limited opportunity for tax payers to regularize their tax status relating to previous tax periods and pay any taxes due.

ZONAL Chairman, Midwest zone of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Chief Solomon Ogbewe, the Uwayoba of Benin, has charged members of the the association in Delta State to go about their normal business and shun any means of violence that could lead to break down of law  and order capable of causing petroleum products scarcity in the state.

The appropriation bill or the budget as commonly referred to is the most important legislative instrument that addresses the welfare and security of the people.

Arsenal demonstrated their powers of recovery midweek but Arsene Wenger knows a greater test lies ahead when they return to Premier League action at Southampton on Sunday.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun  had said that she could not be blackmailed over the suspension of the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir H. Gwarzo.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has disclosed plans to fete thousands of residents simultaneously in 20 centres across the state for the Christmas celebration.